Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2009-01-26 17:40:28 - Graham Ellis
You might be amazed just how much goes on behind a small business like our ... here's a story, written up by Lisa, to Chris who look after the Petty Cash, that's just landed in my mailbox .... enjoy ....
I have tracked down the answer to the Royal Mail receipt that had shown up in the petty cash box. Not that it will make any difference, just that you might be interested in what the charge was for. It's one of those "Holy Cow!" stories.
Chris, the receipt found its way to the box because Graham found it in a drawer under the box and didn't want it to go astray. He didn't take any money out, and so it's not being counted as part of the receipts from last week. But he didn't know where it came from. And I could not put it through without knowing.
I emailed Jxxx to ask if she knew and she came back with the answer.
She had posted out an application to a young fellow asking for a job at the Manor. He filled in the app and put it in the post. Only he didn't use a stamp. And for this potential 34p cost to the applicant, Jxxx had to go down to the Post Office to personally collect the post being held for us, and pay them £1.42 for the problem it caused.
At this stage in the job application process, the guy failed miserably.
As (I'm sure) does any company, we get applications from time to time. And there seem to be more than we're used to coming through at the moment, even though we're not advertising vacancies. Some are high quality, but some ...